Probe presidential empowerment fund

Maliti says DEC should rule out the fund is not a proceed of crime.

Lusaka (19-01-22) NDC media director Emmanuel Maliti is urging the new Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) Director-General Mary Chirwa to probe former presidential empowerment funds coordinator Clement Tembo over possible money laundering cases involving the public resiyrces.
Mr. Maliti said in an exclusive statement that Mr. Tembo, who is Patriotic Front (PF) Kabwata Constituency aspiring candidate was at the center of that fund but many questions remain unanswered.
Maliti wants the DEC Commissioner to establish the source of that money and rule out the possibility of any wrongdoing on the part of Tembo.
“Mary Chirwa is not a new name to many, not all, the wrongdoers should by now be peeing in their pants that there comes the ‘Mother of
All investigators’.
With the powers to prosecute in her hands, Maliti observed that the clique should have diarrhea with no cure considering that ‘umulandu taubola’ literally translated as ‘a case never rots’.
He equally recalls how embattled Tembo went round the country dishing out cash to PF marketers as though he was Santa Claus.
He urged the new DEC boss to deal with all other wrongdoers who thought lawlessness was a way of life.
According to him, the PF wrongdoers had distributed more than K20 million across the Zambia’s ten (10) provinces; Central, Copperbelt, Eastern, Luspula, Lusaka, Muchinga, Northern, North-Western, Southern and Western.
He said the PF elections committee in their right frame of mind and reasoning
settled for Tembo not that he is the best candidate but because of not having a formidable aspirant, after Danny Yenga, who lost to late Levy Mkandawire fell out of favour within the pro-poor policies.
“If they did not, Maliti suggested, the PF feared Tembo would let the ‘Cat out of the bag’ and disclose the source of the funds.
Above all, Maliti suggested Tembo was one of the many PF officials with cash to dish out in the Kabwata by-elections.
He said the new DEC commissioner must immediately investigate and give a report source of this presidential empowerment fund which Tembo was dishing out.
He recalled that when Chishimba Kambwili turned his house into a bank that housed millions of dollars and after joining the corrupt PF.
He claimed to have personally
accompanied Mr. Kambwili to deliver the letter questioning the source of the
presidential empowerment fund then administered by Clement Tembo.
He said Kambwili and many other sane people at that time suspected that the Presidential Empowerment
Fund was a form of laundering illicit money.
Since the ‘loss’ of a man
many believed meant well for the emancipation of a common man, the issue was swept under the carpet.

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